as a temporary cinema for short films, meant to be cultural countdown to the winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 called containR by media artists Springboard. 
as an art piece for the folly dock competition made of a folded 40ft cargo container.March 31, 2009
containers 2.0
This week some rather creative uses for containers showed up
as a temporary cinema for short films, meant to be cultural countdown to the winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 called containR by media artists Springboard.
as an art piece for the folly dock competition made of a folded 40ft cargo container.
as a temporary cinema for short films, meant to be cultural countdown to the winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 called containR by media artists Springboard. as an art piece for the folly dock competition made of a folded 40ft cargo container.
March 30, 2009
March 27, 2009
blog wunderlust: 27 March 2009
green islands | green ugly architecture | interactive floor plans | the Florence Institute | Stern comments on Women in Architecture | Lebbeus musings on architectural education | ditch the architect |
and for those interested HafenCity University of Hamburg is offering a new interdisciplinary Master´s degree programme in “Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning”
and for those interested HafenCity University of Hamburg is offering a new interdisciplinary Master´s degree programme in “Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning”
March 26, 2009
on the boards: Wei-Wu-Ying Centre
Mecanoo has recently been awarded first prize in an International Competition for the design of the Wei-Wu-Ying - a 115,000 sq.m, 6,000 capacity Performing Arts Centre to be built on the site of a former military complex in Taiwan. The architect's proposal was inspired by the centuries-old banyan trees on site, with the design seeking to embody the branches and roots of the massive trees. Completion is expected in 2012
more about the practice
March 25, 2009
The sustainable icon
Architecture [is] more popular than ever before. The services of the architect are in high demand. Ambitious clients still ask for a new Bilbao, more than ten years after the completion of the museum. The architect, as a hip figure, features in commercials on television. [...]Are we about to throw that all away?
Apologies on the misquote...thanks for the correction
House of the Week 015: Eggo house
aerial view of house in contextThis a self-contained dwelling unit designed by Czech architects a69 in the garden of an existing family house in Prague. Called the Eggo house the architecture of this project is not defined by the house, rather by the natural space of the original garden of well preserved full-grown trees.
March 24, 2009
art + architecture (part 2)
A media installation entitled "Virtu-Real goes Tokyo" constructed of recycled wood beams and container board reinforced textiles, designed by Swedish-Japanese architecture office Studio Un/Real.
The installation, constructed in a joint collaboration with +TEAM and a group of Japanese architecture students, created new ways to physically interact with the virtual online world of Second Life and its users
art + architecture (part 1)
March 23, 2009
March 21, 2009
blog wunderlust: 21 March 2009
Revisions of Paris | Prada Transformer | post-bombing | dirt and hay | Dubai is Nuts! | dwell for the James Bond villian | labyrinth gardens | unusual churches | narrow houses | igloo diy
March 20, 2009
Aalto....doorstop??
The use of concrete blocks are commonly used for doorstops, however at the entry of some mid century modern villa lies a $3500 chunk of cement holding a door open. This concrete doorstop is shaped like an Alvar Aalto Savoy vase - because one was used to cast the shape which was then shattered to let out the mould.An intriguing albeit wasteful use of an iconic and expensive vase.
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thanks Sacha
AnOther....
The next issue of AnOther Man magazine - a leading style and culture magazine for men extensively covers artists and architects and engages in collaborations from the world’s most innovative, inspiring and defining creatives. The feature on architecture includes a look at the archive work of Architecture’s 60s badboys Ant Farm, and Jurgen Mayer H, (J Mayer H Studio) is interviewed about the optimistic, playful spirit of his work.
View the latest issue of Another Man
Festival of Lively Architecture
Announcing the 4th staging of the Festival of Lively Architecture to be held in Montpellier, France on the 18th to 21st June 2009.The festival offers a walking tour of the city, envisoned as an architecture discovery that opens, often closed to public, 17th century mansions and their intimate courtyards.
The city of Montpellier possesses more than seventy private mansions, providing the escucheon of Montpellier proper characteristics.
March 19, 2009
on the boards: Container Nation
Container Nation is a 200 unit multi-family development in Salt Lake City, Utah to be constructed out of nearly 1000 shipping containers and built on a concrete plinth containing shops and parking.
Presently in concept phase, the architects Group 41 have proposed schemes that take different approaches to the stacking and build-out of the containers.
March 18, 2009
House of the Week 014: house in Curitiba
This house is a 300 sq.m in Curitiba, Brazil by UNA Architects and features a central 2 story volume that can be completely open to the elements. The residence is raised off the ground creating a service layer with the main living spaces and the bedrooms on the ground and first floor respectively.
March 17, 2009
being...
Well it seems that this blog has been added to the lexicon of pop culture (or at least the architectural version)
Maybe I am turning into an architechnophilia.
happy St. Patricks Day
A truly green post for St Paddy's. Combining primitive building techniques with a deep respect for nature, artist Patrick Dougherty experiments with tree saplings as a construction material creating spatial environments that are part landscape - part structure. This Frankenstein approach towards green design has afforded him a growing body of work throughout the world.via
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